Lesson 1 - History of Basics of Computers

Which of the following is considered the first computer?

• Tally Sticks and Abacus

• Mark 1

• Analytical Engine

• Pascaline

Which invention during the Industrial Revolution used punched cards to determine the pattern in the cloth, causing the threads to be lifted or dropped?

• Jacquard Loom

• Mark I

• USAAF’s Norden bomb sight

• Lorenz SZ42 cipher machine

Which one among the following represents an invention by Charles Babbage?

• Lorenz SZ42

• Colossus

• March 1

• Analytical Engine

Which of the following refers to the Harvard computer that was utilized for ballistic computations during World War II?

• Lorenz SZ42

• USAAF’s Norden

• Mark I

• Analytical Engine

Which electromechanical analog computer was employed to calculate bomb drift, indicating to bombardiers when to release the bomb?

• USAAF’s Norden

• Lorenz SZ42

• Colossus

• Mark I

Which electromechanical computer was employed for encoding and decoding German military messages used by the Kriegsmarine to communicate with their submarines?

• Analytical Engine

• USAAF’s Norden

• Lorenz SZ42

• Colossus

What is the name of the initial general-purpose programmable computer constructed by the British mathematical genius and computing pioneer Alan Turing?

• USAAF’s Norden

• Colossus

• Lorenz SZ42

• Mark I

According to history. what is the world's first commercial computer?

• MAC

• IBM

• LEO I

• HP

What is the world's first orbiting satellite?

• Sputnik

• Terra

• Landsat

• Sentinel

Military computing in World War II involved small data sets (an encrypted message) and a huge number of calculations (code breaking)

• True

• False